Sam Weber did an amazing job with Robert Jordan’s Kindle version of The Shadow Rising (Book 4 of the Wheel of Time series).  The warm darks and the textures in his jacket are drool-worthy.  Sam and this piece are entirely to blame for me breaking out my watercolors and doing some watercolor and acrylic experimentation.  If one of the experiments turns out, I’ll be sure to post it here.  In the meantime however, check out this illustration on Sam’s site.

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I’m not a big Halo fan.  I played the first iteration when it was released for the Macintosh, and I read the book it was loosely based on, but when Bungie was purchased by Microsoft and Halo became an Xbox-only franchise, I stopped playing.  However, several Halo 3 commercials were released awhile back and one really caught my eye.  It’s amazingly well done and it is nice to see Chopin being heard by what is certainly not his usual audience.  The final zoom-in shot where the main POI (Point-Of-Interest) is catching that nice, warm light as they’re surrounded by a mass of darker shapes really gets me thinking of some interesting compositions.

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This post is also the first in a new section on my Web site that I created to talk about what I find inspiring. I’ve seen so many incredibly inspiring things lately that I felt I needed to help bring attention to a few of them. Some you may have already seen, but hopefully you’ll find a new and interesting tidbit now and then that will bring a little light to your day. For those of you who have signed up to be notified via email when this site is updated, if you’d rather not be notified when I post something in the “Inspiration” section, simply navigate to my Web site and click on the “profile” link on the right side of any page (under the “Subscribe to receive an email when this site is updated” header). From your profile options simply uncheck “Inspriation”, click “Update Preferences”, and you will no longer be notified.

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